Example sentences of "[adj] years [unc] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | e ) are the only benefits payable under the Scheme in the case of an officer who leaves the Service with less than 2 years ' reckonable service . |
| 2 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 3 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 4 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 5 | The maximum penalty for mutiny in the Philippines is a life sentence , but in five previous coup attempts the most severe punishment for leaders was 12 years ' hard labour . |
| 6 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 7 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 8 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 9 | Training is based on up to six years ' relevant job experience and includes on average two to three years ' study . |
| 10 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 11 | I feel let down after giving the club 10 years ' loyal service . |
| 12 | Doctors who performed illegal abortions would be subject to up to 10 years ' hard labour and fines not exceeding $100,000 . |
| 13 | On Dec. 1 former Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa had his sentence reduced from 20 years ' to 10 years ' hard labour . |
| 14 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 15 | When the Nazis took power he went underground and worked in the communist resistance , was arrested and did eight years ' penal servitude . |
| 16 | He had eleven years ' good service before the start of war . |
| 17 | It follows that no firm may be set up which does not have at least one principal of at least three years ' professional standing . |
| 18 | A further important European issue concerns the adoption by the European Council of a Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of at least three years ' professional education and training . |
| 19 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 20 | It recommended ( for both ) increases in salary , and the extension of training courses to three years ' full-time study . |
| 21 | The Avalon bathroom was developed after three years ' extensive research into the difficulties associated with ageing . |
| 22 | For those on non-residential courses three years ' part-time training is normally demanded . |
| 23 | The vicar added that unless the new church was allowed three years ' hard work would have been wasted . |
| 24 | The court of military justice on May 5 confirmed the sentence of three years ' hard labour first passed in absentia in July 1983 against Gen. Saadeddine al-Shazli , the army chief of staff during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 . |
| 25 | After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager . |
| 26 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend recall that until the Criminal Justice Act 1988 amended the law , the penalty for taking away a vehicle without consent was up to three years ' custodial sentence ? |
| 28 | Although the Police Federation welcomes the Bill , it would prefer the basic offence of taking away without consent possibly to incur the same penalty as was available until 1988 , of up to three years ' custodial sentence . |
| 29 | On the basis of many years ' detailed observation of infants , they argue for the existence of what they call ‘ innate intersubjectivity ’ as a universal motivation , present in the newborn and peculiar to our species , that leads the child to acquire symbolic understanding . |
| 30 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |